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...Singapore. Nguyen picked up the heroin in Cambodia and was caught in transit at Singapore's Changi Airport. Australian officials lobbied unsuccessfully to stop his execution. Singapore rejected Nguyen's request to have a final hug with family members, but allowed his mother to hold his hand and touch his face and hair the day before he was hanged. Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock called the execution a "barbaric...
...lawyers have offered evidence that the agency, among other things, proposed that Wilson use his consulting firm to help transport handguns and submachine guns to Saudi Arabia. They also say it arranged the testing of body armor for the Shah of Iran and that Wilson kept in almost daily touch with senior CIA officials, proposing agents for recruitment and informing on attempts by Libya to purchase weapons and nuclear technology...
...Bush, big-time college football is as easy as two-hand touch. Last Saturday night he won the Heisman Trophy, by the second widest margin ever, after a dominant year as a runner, receiver and kick returner. Bush averaged a nation-high 8.9 yds. per carry and capped off the regular season in stunning fashion, tallying 513 all-purpose yards in a 50-42 win over Fresno State and 260 rushing yards in a 66-19 romp over crosstown rival UCLA...
...filmmaker. He's a cofounder of eBay, who retired at 35 with a reported $2 billion in his pocket. Like most other entrepreneurs who have made their first billion before 35, the boyish-looking Skoll is an intensely driven man. Exhausted employees say he is rarely out of touch and never without his Sidekick, Treo and cell phone. These days Skoll's primary objective is not to make money but rather to spend what he has pursuing such lofty ideals as government accountability and social and economic justice...
...institutions. The German election this fall satisfied few; Chancellor Angela Merkel presides over a fragile grand coalition that seems unlikely to turn around the country's ailing economy anytime soon. The eruption of riots across France this fall added to a sense that Europe's leaders are out of touch with their citizens. Add to this a summer punctuated by fatal bombings in London and destructive forest fires in Spain and Portugal and 2005 really looks like an annus horribilis. A look at some of this year's lowlights, and what it will take to turn things around: CONSTITUTION BLUES...